Loc. 090984/5 - Hales Island (Miocene of Chile)

Where: Chile (46.7° S, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 47.4° S, 70.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Lithostratigraphic details are not discussed (in english) in text. AGE: Middle-Late Miocene in text based on macrofossil biostratigraphy. Here, tentatively assigned to Middle Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within regional section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, on the basis of faunal composition.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text, but presumably siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Covacevich & Frassinetti

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Presumably V. Covacevich and D. Frassinetti. R, prior to 1980. REPOSITORY: SGO.

Primary reference: V. Covacevich and D. Frassinetti. 1986. El genero Cancellaria en el Mioceno de Chile con descripcion de cuatro especies nuevas (Gaastropoda: Cancellariidae). Revista Geológica de Chile 28-29:33-67 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78539: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.02.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia and gastropoda. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, and with taxonomic assignments to species and subgenus resolution.
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Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione sp.
Chione sp. von Mühlfield 1811 venus clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea sp.
Panopea sp. Menard 1807 clam
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Trochus laevis
Trochus laevis Sowerby 1846 top snail
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria crossletensis
Cancellaria crossletensis Covacevich and Frassinetti 1986 snail
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
"Oliva" sp.
"Oliva" sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Laevidentaliidae
Laevidentalium sp.
Laevidentalium sp. Cossmann 1888 tusk shell